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Former baseball manager Bobby Valentine — who found success leading teams in Japan that eluded him in Major League Baseball — is downplaying reports that President-elect Donald Trump is considering him to be the U.S. ambassador to that country.

"All this talk about Japan is just speculation as far as I'm concerned, but it's an honor to even be in the conversation," Valentine, a 66-year-old Stamford resident and athletic director of Sacred Heart University, said in a statement released through the school. "I'm extremely happy at Sacred Heart University. It's growing rapidly and is a very dynamic, exciting place to be."

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